Juan Nepomuceno Guerra

Juan Nepomuceno Guerra (18 July 1915-12 July 2001) was a Mexican smuggler and drug trafficker who founded the Gulf Cartel in the 1930s with the goal of smuggling alcohol into the United States. He never spent more than a few hours in jail during his lifetime, and he is hailed as the "Godfather of Mexican crime".

Biography
Juan Nepomuceno Guerra was born on 18 July 1915 in Matamoros, Tamaulipas, Mexico, and he began to smuggle alcohol into the United States in the 1930s during Prohibition. He later diversified to other smuggling operations, including contraband; his nephew Juan Garcia Abrego would use Nepomuceno's connections to ship cocaine into the border states, and they would be shipped as far as New York and Illinois from there. The old man never served more than a day in jail for his crimes, despite his founding of the Gulf Cartel, the oldest and one of the most powerful Mexican drug cartels. Nepomuceno would die at the old age of 85 in 2001, a free man; in 2015, a street in a working-class area of Reynosa would be named for him.